RegistrationServices.UnregisterAssembly(Assembly) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Runtime.InteropServices

Assembly:

mscorlib.dll

Unregisters the classes in a managed assembly.

public:
 virtual bool UnregisterAssembly(System::Reflection::Assembly ^ assembly);

[System.Security.SecurityCritical]
public virtual bool UnregisterAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly assembly);

[<System.Security.SecurityCritical>]
abstract member UnregisterAssembly : System.Reflection.Assembly -> bool
override this.UnregisterAssembly : System.Reflection.Assembly -> bool

Public Overridable Function UnregisterAssembly (assembly As Assembly) As Boolean

Parameters

assembly

Assembly

The assembly to be unregistered.

Returns

Boolean

true if assembly contains types that were successfully unregistered; otherwise false if the assembly contains no eligible types.

Implements

UnregisterAssembly(Assembly)

Attributes

SecurityCriticalAttribute

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

assembly is null.

InvalidOperationException

The full name of assembly is null.

-or-

A method marked with ComUnregisterFunctionAttribute is not static.

-or-

There is more than one method marked with ComUnregisterFunctionAttribute at a given level of the hierarchy.

-or-

The signature of the method marked with ComUnregisterFunctionAttribute is not valid.

TargetInvocationException

A user-defined custom unregistration function (marked with the ComUnregisterFunctionAttribute attribute) throws an exception.

Remarks

UnregisterAssembly removes the registry entries for the types in the specified assembly previously added by RegisterAssembly. This method also calls any unregistration functions found in the assembly.